Collaboration News and Business

John ArringtonChair, Hall A CC

Hall A Collaboration MeetingDecember 13, 2007

Collaboration News and Business New members PAC33 proposals Status of publications Hall A Annual Report Analysis Workshop Hall A Charter

CC election next spring Need candidates for two positions (not from MIT or FIU)

New Members

Three student members (HAPPEx/PREx) Sudirukkuge Tharanga Jinasundera (UVa) Abdurahim Rakhman (Syracuse) Zafar Ahmed (Syracuse)

Notify Kees of students working on upcoming Hall A experiments.

PAC33 proposals

11 (of 13) proposals submitted to CC

Collaboration status approved for all 11 submitted proposals

My personal thanks to Pete Markowitz, who organized the proposal review and saved my vacation

Status of Publications (good, bad, and ugly)

Several high-impact, top-cited publications from the Hall A physics program

Many experiments have results beyond initial publications, but have not published these results Want to see annual report contributions until all

of the main physics results of the proposals are published

Hall A Annual Report

Editing in progress: Bryan Moffit, Pete Markowitz, Kees de Jager

Still missing 2-3 contributions Hope to finish editing by the end of the year Next year

Formalize smaller technical reports New requirement

Updates from experiments that have published first results, but are still analyzing primary physics results

Brief reports on analyses expected for archival papers

Analysis Workshop (yesterday) Summary tomorrow A few general issues

Limited communication on analysis issues Initial ideas to improve things

Physics AND analysis updates at Collab. Meeting General analysis logbook (not experiment specific) Update some web resources

Hall A Collaboration Charter

Some procedures have not always been consistently followed Requirements for proposal review Replacement of CC members

Are there other small updates we should make, as long as we’re cleaning up these issues?

What about 12 GeV? More very-large scale experiments Do we need/want any changes in the Collaboration structure?

Please send suggestions/comments to CC